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| Description | The front cover of Series D British passport featuring King Charles III coat of arms, issued since December 2025. |
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| Author or copyright owner |
Government of the United Kingdom |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | https://www.instagram.com/p/DPqcSeWkwl0 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | British passport |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | For visual identification of the object of the article. The article as a whole is dedicated specifically to a discussion of this work. |
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| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | This file is a vectorization of the passport cover design used exclusively in the primary infobox for identification purposes. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
This work is a government-issued travel document, not a commercial product. The use of this image for identification purposes does not compete with the issuing authority's exclusive function of producing and distributing said documents. |
| Other information |  This work is protected by the British Crown copyright. Limitations on its distribution are defined at the original site of publication, and are not altered by its reproduction here. Those terms may include, but may not be limited to, its reproduction being accurate, free of charge in any format or medium, and not used in a misleading context. The source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged. HMSO has explicitly stated in official correspondence that material under Crown Copyright may not be relicensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. Thus, this is a non-free licence for the purpose of Wikipedia, as modification is not permitted. However, it is believed that the use of this work:
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| current | 08:01, 24 December 2025 | | 71 × 100 (296 KB) | Minorax (talk | contribs) | fix // Editing SVG source code using c:User:Rillke/SVGedit.js |
| 23:08, 22 December 2025 | No thumbnail | 71 × 100 (296 KB) | Thepekinite (talk | contribs) | Uploading a non-free work, as object of commentary using File Upload Wizard |
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